The document discusses how the media product uses conventions of real thriller films. It describes choosing the horror thriller genre and analyzing the opening scenes of 4 films to identify common elements, such as suspense, tension, excitement, and plot twists. These elements informed the design of the media product, which incorporated 4 of the 5 elements except excitement to match the chosen subgenre of horror thriller.

1. QUESTION 1
In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?

2. The genre I chose to portray in my media product was
thriller and I decided to focus on the sub genre of
horror thriller in particular. To give me an idea of what I
needed to include to make it horror thriller I watched
the opening two minutes of 4 horror thrillers. These
were:

3. PIN (1988)

4. THE SIXTH SENSE (1999)

5. THE CELL (2000)

6. THE RESIDENT (2011)

7. I then deconstructed them to see the common
features of the opening scenes by looking at
camerawork, editing, sound and mise en scene.
The features that I found to be typically present
from my research were:

8. ★Suspense

9. ★Tension

10. ★Excitement

11. ★Plot
twists/cliffhangers

12. ★Emphasised the
danger the protagonist
was in

13. From these 5 common elements I decided to
include 4 of them in my media product. I didn’t
include excitement as a main element because it was
a horror thriller and did not think it was appropriate
for the sub genre I was portraying.